The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.

Biography

Seillière was born in

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, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the

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. He was elected a member of the

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in 1914. Aged 80, Seillière was (with

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, Octave Aubry and

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) one of the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy, succeeding Henri Lavedan. He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière.

Works

* ''Étude sur Ferdinand Lassalle, fondateur du Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1897) * ''Littérature et Morale dans le Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1898) * ''La Philosophie de l'impérialisme'', 4 volumes: I. ''Le Comte de Gobineau et l' Aryanisme historique'' (1903), II. ''Apollon ou Dionysos? Étude sur

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'' (1905), III. ''L'Impérialisme démocratique'' (1907), IV. ''Le Mal romantique - Essai sur l'impérialisme irrationnel'' (1908) * ''Une Tragédie d'Amour au Temps du Romantisme'' (1909) * ''Les Mystiques du Néoromantisme - Karl Marx, Tolstoï, les Pangermanistes'' (1910) * ''Barbey d'Aurevilly'' (1910) * ''Introduction à la Philosophie de l'Impérialisme'' (1911) * ''Schopenhauer'' (1912) * ''Mysticisme et Domination'' (1913) * ''Le Romantisme des Réalistes - Gustave Flaubert'' (1914) * ''L'Avenir de la Philosophie Bergsonienne'' (1917) * ''Un artisan d'énergie française, Pierre de Coubertin'' (1917) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''Psychoanalyse freudienne ou psychologie impérialiste'' (1928) * '' Romantisme et démocratie romantique'' (1930) * ''

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historien des idées'' (1938) * ''Le Naturisme de Montaigne et autres essais'' (1938) * ''Un précurseur du national-socialisme. L'actualité de Carlyle'' (1939)

Bibliography

* Seillière, Jean : Ernest Seillière - 1866 1966 - Centenaire De La Naissance. 1966. * Cazanove, Laetitia de : Ernest Seillière (1866-1955), théoricien de l'impérialisme et père du fascisme ?, Université de Paris X Nanterre, 2001 (Dir. Didier Musiedlak), 218 p.

External links

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